2026-04-17 12:05:48
Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal
I have written a little arrangement of "Comptine d'un autre été: L'Après-midi" (aka "the Amelie song" by Yann Tiersen), for a mixed ensemble (flute, piano, violin and cello), in the rare case someone needs one tomorrow (I actually needed it):
https://musescore.com/user/79969672/sc
A folk song written earlier this year to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the #Goddard launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCEN_JjU02c - it captures the event and its legacy well (and makes reference to Goddard's famous cherry tree and the fact that the farm where it happened is now a golf course). Artist's home page: https://roncarlsonmusic.com
Well, I've written all my number equality stuff. It's full of bugs, but it's written.
Debugging is a problem for another day.
A definitive guide has been written and updated for 2026 by @…
for Xbox emulation on the Steam Deck: https://gardinerbryant.com/…
from my link log —
k6: a web load testing tool, written in Golang and configured in JavaScript.
https://github.com/loadimpact/k6
saved 2020-11-28 https://
A heavier version of the proton, has been discovered by a team at the nuclear research laboratory CERN
It was found using the newly upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as part of its latest “beauty” experiment, known as LHCb.
Scientists spotted the particle amid a spray of debris created by colliding particles at the facility near Geneva, Switzerland.
The particle has been called
Xi-cc-plus,
(written as Ξcc⁺),
and is four times as heavy as a normal prot…
Just finished "Squished" written by Megan Wagner Lloyd and drawn by Michelle Mee Nutter. A lovely graphic novel about the ups and downs of being one of seven kids and dealing with various life transitions at the end of elementary school.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
#EroticMusings Week 33
Craft: Is creating erotica an erotic act in itself?
It can be. As a hobby writer, it usually was because I wrote only for my own enjoyment. As a professional writer, I have a "craft mode" where I just get something written without needing the spark of inspiration or arousal.
What part, if any, does your own arousal play in creating or eval…
Never did code while on my commute. If you want me to work then pay for it, no freebies!
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-a…
@… some of what's written about pkgbase is unnecessarily alarmist.
In a nutshell: you can use it for RELEASE, STABLE, and CURRENT. No need to build from source for updates.
#FreeBSD
This sounds like it was written for #ChrisCornell. Wish he was around to cover it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaxTo8ZU980
Im Namen von @…, @… sowie @… laden wir alle Interessierten sehr herzlich zu folgendem…
Amazing piece of #VFX lore. Today artists are complaining that you can‘t have 3 Nuke windows open on 128 GB RAM because they have 10 browser windows and 2 electron apps running at the same time. https://mastodon.social/@Drwave/116242…
Good mooorning, everyone! 🌞
#wallpaper
Perhaps an MP could ask if the Ministry of Defence AI system would have access to, or control of, the UK military satellite network?
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-02-03/110534/
A classified Israeli military database ... indicated that of more than 53,000 deaths recorded in Gaza, named Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters accounted for roughly 17%. That suggests the rest, 83%, were civilians. These are not the statistics of a war fought with precision, this is a war where imprecision is the aim.
When reported verification times for AI-assisted targets are measured in seconds, ... the consequences are written in rows of small coffins.
The UK's Society of Authors launches a "Human Authored" logo to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books (Nadia Khomami/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Ceremony:
🎵 Your Life in France
#Ceremony
https://ninosdubrasil.bandcamp.com/track/your-life-in-france-remix-originally-written-by-ceremony
https://open.spotify.com/track/7118qQv5lmJl5fHqoJSTGo
There are volumes to be written about this poll
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sbdnltkjqzeb5qshxmi7wu2i/post/3meudkau3xb26
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 225749 nodes and 1554699 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
Knocked ✊
敲 ✊
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Spotify says AI is helping it speed up coding and product velocity and its best developers "have not written a single line of code since December" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spot
Just finished "Pearl" written by Sherri L. Smith and illustrated by Christine Norrie, based at least in part on "Hiroshima in the Morning", a memoir by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto. A concise, wonderfully-illustrated, and fascinating story of a Hawaiian-born girl sent to visit her dying great-grandmother in Japan in 1941 and then trapped there throughout World War 2. I won't spoil things beyond that, but the book digs deep into the horrors of the war on both sides, showing just how cruel the geological ambitions of nations can be to people who belong to both cultures.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
I just found my first program that wasn't a bash script, written when I was 18 https://gist.github.com/Consistos/959c8d31fd190c62438919e2b2f784da
in a world of omnipresent shitty and baity talk/blog/video titles, I cannot appreciate @… 's talk enough:
"How to give your Python code to someone else”
It's perfect. 🥹
https://…
Oh well, our upcoming client doesn't provide cc files for each shot. Instead, we need to extract the grading values from an EDL file. Fortunately I've already written a script to do that a few years ago for another show.
The time to write a script might be more than what it takes to do the task manually (here it would be copying values from a text file to an xml file). But it pays off if you have to repeat the task. Even if that is 7 years later.
It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an
exercise for the reader. :-) -- Larry Wall in <7448@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters
#AI #AISlop #Microsoft
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116402758187949218
Novel just waiting to be written
Serious and honest question, and I'm not trying to diss on a different discipline: I don't have much experience reading papers in economics. And I saw that paper "AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse", on a topic that I find very interesting, written by Acemoğlu et al. Now, Acemoğlu is a Nobel prize winner and MIT professor, so I would assume that paper is among the best economics would offer on that subject.
Anyone know of good articles on solipsism in games, especially with regards to game engine design and level design? Feels so obvious someone must have written on this before but Google scholar is not coming up with a lot.
(boosts appreciated)
#AcademicChatter #GameDesign #GameStudies
What day is it? #piday
Finally have been trying out https://github.com/boyter/scc for counting (unique) lines of code, comments, DRYness and complexity and getting a better and more aggregated overview of the scale of my ht…
"I’d interpret this as follows: this likely came down to a discussion involving Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a few other Iran hardliners. That’s where the decision was going to be made. There were probably people on the margins […]. But they would have known these buzzkill remarks weren’t what Trump or his inner ring of advisors wanted to hear. This is the nature of personalist rule. It’s down to the leader’s gut impulses. He doesn’t want to hear about problems."
«Stoolap - High-performance embedded SQL database in Rust»
Have any of you tried it before and what is your experience with it? Can it be used in the same way as SQLite? I ask because the open source project is relatively new, i.e. are there certain arguments to (not) use it productively?
🦀 https://stoolap.io…
https://lemmy.world/post/43988094
There are going to be a lot of projects forked to remove or halt ai coming up.
This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote
based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
I had asked some of the parents to see if their children would be willing to write to me about their experiences inside.
-- More than three dozen did.
One of those letters came from 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya from Colombia.
Her letter was written on…
Directors from some of the UK's top shows sign a letter calling on streaming platforms to agree to a deal on establishing a royalty or residual scheme (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/directors-uk-streamers-royalties-1236722155/
No one asked, and it's doubtful anyone cares to know 😄, but for some reason felt to share a bit of background on 'Trophallaxis Dance'. It's never conscious in the moment, but it seems I'm sometimes into the idea of doing things that are both weirder and poppier at once; despite that, the track was written in 31 EDO (my favourite set tuning along with 19 EDO), with half of the duties via soft synths and half by manually tuning the MS-20. Obviously software stuff also went …
I wish I'd thought about this months ago... Have you have had a CLI coding assistant give you code to copy and paste? Well, the stupid formatting the tool has always adds an indent. So I had this method to copy into geany and wrote a script to clean it up. I thought I was so smart.
Then I remembered xclip. Have Claude write to a file, then `xclip -selector clipboard < file_name` . It's so much easier, and I get all those code snippets written to file.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@leibnizopenscience/116062503994538563
I think some of these points are also worth considering in teaching contexts and in guidelines for term papers/written exams.
dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia
Spent the evening playing around with Text-to-speech stuff. Not so much fun on a CPU (instead of a GPU).
Don't ask for a use case - it was a "because I want it"-case
Maybe I should have better written one or two blog posts :-D
"Hey look at my cool script that I wrote with my bare hand, by my self."
*Checks out their completely self written code*
The bash script contains emojis.
I have written another essay for my blog. This one is about where I'm up to with my mad #Lisp system, and is *really* obscure!
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu
It's mind boggling how US commentators, media or ordinary people, oversimplify what is happening in Hungary. A blank cheque was written to someone who was extremely secretive during his campaign. Probably the only confirmed fact was that his career is extremely tightly woven in Fidesz. We've seen many saviors like this in Eastern Europe. Yes, not Orban, but easily his proxy. Think Dimitry Medvedev if you need a famous example. Did he oust Putin?
Posted my #job listing a week ago.
- Within 24 hours, got 50 applications, more than >50% from just one country, along with more than 80 LinkedIn friend requests, unsolicited messages.
- The next few day, got a bunch of AI-written cover letters, including several with the same exact line.
The last three days - zero applications from that country, zero AI applications.
Ex-CIA director Brennan: ‘25th amendment was written with Donald Trump in mind’
https://www.newsweek.com/john-brennan-25th-amendment-trump-iran-11815906
From Super Bowl I to MMMDCCCLXXXVIII: Why is it written in Roman numerals? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7021771/2026/02/08/super-bowl-roman-numerals-numbers/
George Pickens' Dallas Cowboys Future Appears to be Written on the Wall https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/george-pickens-dallas-cowboys-future-appears-written-on-wall
scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal
Me: "Why did you write this in the manual:
Press Ctrl Alt Del, Start Taskmanager
You could have just written "Press Ctrl Alt Esc"
Them: "People of a certain age are more familiar with Ctrl Alt Del"
Me: "The people you are thinking of remember that as the key to restart the computer!"
Them: 🤯
As MS managed to get a remotely exploitable security hole in a simple text editor, and MS also is pround of having 30 % of new code written by AI: is more or less then 30 % of security holes created by AI usage?
Spoiler: all publications on this topics very much hint towards much more than 30 %, and MS ist special anyway…
The Linux Kernel Organization now lets developers submit AI-generated code, as long as it complies with the guidelines, licensing, and attribution requirements (Simon Batt/XDA Developers)
https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-kernel-now-allows-ai-written-code/…
"Science Ltd. – Research Enterprise in the Age of Machines"
https://www.routledge.com/Science-Ltd-Research-Enterprise-in-the-Age-of-Machines/Borghini-Severini/p/book/9781041131069
[erscheint (wen…
"Hi [Name]"
This doesn't start well. "[Name]" instead of, you know, an actual name. Did an AI write the email, or was it just an incompetently written mail merge program? Maybe the AI wrote the mail merge?
'We're doing hardware for AI'
And that didn't exactly improve your chances.
And finally, what they actually needed is something that I haven't touched since college.
Buh buy.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEarlyMusicShow
- The Pied Piper
Hannah French is joined in the studio by Edward Blakeman, who has just written a new biography of the early music specialist and broadcaster David Munrow, who died 50 years ago.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tmj8
After the City loss, I had written a long thread on PGMOL's asymmetrical application of the rules. I opted not too post it, as I really don't want to be that person ALWAYS complaining about officiating. LFC have other self-sabotaging issues and City were able to exploit them more than the bananas officiating to cause such a disastrous implosion.
But if Chris Kavanagh & Darren England (VAR) do us dirty today, all bets are off and I will flip tables.
After the recent #IWD this seems like the right time to share this excellent article about AI and ick, written for women and articulating some of the things we're experiencing with this shift #linkTuesday
scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal
Either my understanding of #Bidi is off, or Jordan Police screw up their Bidi
RT: twitter.com/Police_Jo/status/2031410145427616135 #RTL
best sinatra album
#vinyl #jazz #franksinatra
the most Bruins headline ever written. I love this team. never change #hnom
In late Middle English writing, 'a' and 'an' commonly were joined to the following noun,
if that word began with a vowel,
-- which caused confusion over how such words ought to be divided when written separately.
In 'nickname', 'newt', and British dialectal 'naunt',
the -n- belongs to a preceding indefinite article 'an' or possessive pronoun 'mine'.
My naunt for "mine aunt" is recorded from 13c.…
The new US cyber security strategy just dropped. I'm a Claude user, and I suspiciously inquired of Claude as to the number of em-dashes in this four page document. Then I asked Claude to analyze the probability of this document being LLM-written.
Claude then throws some naughty shade.
ht…
@… I'd like to read his own written words on a subject.
This is not X.
US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that "identified views opposed" to AI and listed addresses of other AI executives (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/technol
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Avalon Emerson:
🎵 Written into Changes
#AvalonEmerson
https://avalonemerson.bandcamp.com/track/written-into-changes
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JmWTXLKNep8x1uza83tpE
Wow does the AI-BAD crowd who moans like children about these really great AGENTS.md files and how bros aren’t writing docs for humans but for AI instead get butt hurt when you point out those are written by AI and not humans.
RE: https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro/116052125663585573
"About half of the written responses did not match current archaeological knowledge. In one prompt group, more than eighty percent of the text conflicted with published research. The images showed similar …
Every side is claiming compliance with the ceasefire while accusing the other of escalation
And it is impossible to determine which complaints are valid without a written, mutually-agreed-upon ceasefire document.
https://skywriter.blue/@thestudyofwar.bsky.social/3mj5sd5…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Music Rediscovered
The Comet Prelude received its world premiere recording in 2025, seventy-three years after it was written by the mixed-race composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Leah Broad explores why.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3wh
When the leaders speak of peace
The common folk know
That war is coming.
When the leaders curse war
The mobilization order is already written out.
Bertolt Brecht, "A German War Primer"
#bertoltbrecht #warprimer
Every side is claiming compliance with the ceasefire while accusing the other of escalation,
and it is impossible to determine which complaints are valid without a written, mutually-agreed-upon ceasefire document.
https://bsky.app/profile/thestudyofwar.bsky.socia…
In written evidence to the Prince Harry privacy trial, ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre says allegations of phone hacking are "grave and sometimes preposterous" (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/paul-d
OpenAI's red lines within its DOD agreement are built upon legal language that the NSA has redefined over decades to permit the things they appear to prohibit (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/02/openai
dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia
The former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan has added his name to growing calls for the president to be ousted on grounds that he is unfit for the job,
arguing that the US constitution’s 25th amendment addressing involuntary removal from office was
“written with Donald Trump in mind”.
Brennan, who served as head of the spy agency during Barack Obama’s presidency, told MS Now on Saturday that
Trump’s recent volatile remarks about destroying Iranian civ…
dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia
Just finished "Bunt!" written by Ngozi Ukazu, illustrated by Mad Rupert, with colors by K. Czap. A really fun and well-written graphic novel about crappy college financial aid and a ridiculous softball team of misfits. It's light-hearted but also touching, and has a wonderful cast with lore that's introduced deftly: a great balance of just enough exposition supported by a whole lot of implication and background art details to flesh out 8 supporting characters in a single book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal
The Senate passed a bill Thursday aimed at boosting the supply of housing and bringing down prices,
marking a rare bipartisan breakthrough on a major issue.
The ✅ "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act",
written by Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C.,
and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,
won 89 votes.
Ten senators voted against it.
Scott is the chairman of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee,
and Warren is the ranking member.
Entire, founded by ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60M seed at a $300M valuation to build open-source developer tools to better manage AI-written code (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/former-github-c…
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 397635 nodes and 1031378 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal